KV-1 model 1940 simplified welded turret (short bustle)
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25 5 November 2022, 17:52
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Thanks Jan! I'll try to replicate a picture which shows one of these climbing over a hill, which features a two-tone camouflage (brown and green).
I'll probably use the Trumpeter vinyl tracks for that one, as the details are good enough IMHO and due to the position of the road wheels the top run of the tracks are perfectly straight.
5 November 2022, 18:43
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As can be seen on picture 22, the fenders are attached with 6 bolts each. This is incorrect for this version, as they were reduced to 4 by that time. I'm still wondering how to do that. Either I will carefully cut off the inner 4 and re-add 2 of them, or I'll drill some holes and replace them with a short bit of copper wire.
22 March 2023, 09:44
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When I look at the pictures of the gun and mantlet I can't but wonder if the barrel should have been slipped in from the back, is through the base and mantlet?
22 March 2023, 11:21
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Jan please have a look at picture #17: on the left you have the mantlet, which already had a hole, though slightly undersized. On the right hand size of the picture you see the base of the mantlet, which connects to the two trunnion cheeks left and right. This part only had the 2 grooves but no hole. So you couldn't slip the barrel through that part. That in turn would have resulted in the gun barrel sticking much too far out.
I adjusted the length of the F-32 gun to match the line drawings Neil Stokes' KV book, and it's still sligthly longer than the barrel in the Trumpeter kits 00356 and 00357. The Aber replacement barrel in turned aluminium matches the Trumpeter parts in length. In the top view line drawings the gun reaches the rear edge of the angled nose plate.
I hope that makes things a bit clearer and that I haven't misunderstood your question.
22 March 2023, 13:56
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This weekend I was busy completing the turret. To my horror, I realised that I couldn't use the Tamiya part E10 for the ring around the turret hatch, as I want to use the Tamiya turret on another project. So I had to extract the part from a Trumpeter turret, which therefore had to be sacrificed. I took one of my kits 00356 for that, as this one will be converted to a model 1939 later on, using a turret with L-11 gun from TMD.
26 March 2023, 11:42
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Finally the turret is now finished after having added all the small fittings. I was not happy with the barrel length, so I corrected that.
8 April 2023, 10:17
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Construction is finished for now. The rest of the running gear will be done after the hilltop base is finished. As I've written above, I'll try to use the vinyl tracks for once, because they're quite good for the medium and I don't need the top run to sag for this particular model.
7 June 2023, 07:32
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Tamiya kit modified with conversion set from MR Models.